“On the title page it is stated that, “The book is meant to be a warning of what very well may happen if policies, laws, and business directions are not changed quickly.” I think that this book would be a… Read More

High-tech becomes high-risk in Denise Robbins’ novels. The New Hampshire based author uses two decades of experience in computers to explore the killer possibilities in technology. Denise integrates her knowledge of computers and technology along with secrets, intrigue, suspense, and… Read More

Last night’s PDX WordPress Meetup Group: WordPress Codex Night was a resounding success. In just under two hours, 130 changes were made to the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. On the informal WordPress Documentation Team Task List,… Read More

What book are you most excited about this year? Over at Library Journal, Barbara Hoffert has published her annual “BEA Galley & Signing Guide.” The handy resource will help you make sure you can find all the galley copies and… Read More

What book are you most excited about this year? Over at Library Journal, Barbara Hoffert has published her annual “BEA Galley & Signing Guide.” The handy resource will help you make sure you can find all the galley copies and… Read More

Want to finish your book this summer? From July 16 through August 1, 2012, Mediabistro will host its first Literary Festival & Workshops. Among our long list of guests, Rebecca Skloot (pictured) will share some Unconventional Publicity tips and Constance … Read More

The days are getting longer and warmer. Summer is on the horizon. And people are bringing out their sunscreen, beach chairs, and eReaders. Yep– it’s true. Anyone go to the beach last year? It looked like an outdoor Nook and… Read More

Vintage has sold a combined total of ten million trade paperback, eBook and audiobook copies of E.L. James‘ Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy in the last six weeks. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group president Anthony Chirico had this statement: “This… Read More

John Oakes, the co-founder of OR Books, has written an opinion piece for Publisher’s Weekly, encouraging publishers to free themselves from the traditional print book supply chain (as well as from the shackles of Amazon) by selling eBooks directly… Read More

By David S. Atkinson The child voice has amazing potential in fiction when used the right way. Few authors seem to recognize what it can do, or just don’t choose to utilize it. However, The Land of Decoration amply demonstrates… Read More

British nutritionist Venice A. Fulton has scored a 7-figure book deal with Grand Central Publishing for his diet book Six Weeks to OMG. The book first hit the scene as a self-published work. In the book, Fulton shares his diet… Read More

In 1990, the phrase "bona fides" appeared four times in The Times, according to our archive: three times in editorials and once in Sports. Last year we used the term - a Latin phrase meaning "good faith" - 93 times,… Read More

Good morning, everyone! Here are your freelance writing jobs for today. Freelance Writing Jobs Content Writing Humorous Content Writer (Remote) Project-based Content Writer – English Lit (Remote) Skilled Construction Writer (Downtown Vancouver) Freelance Health Writers (SOMA/South Beach) Web Hosting Writer… Read More

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE The following poem by Kathryn Stripling Byer is the second in a series of related poems called Southern Fictions. Despite all the protective barriers we put up between us and the world, there’s always… Read More

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I’ve been in the publishing industry for more than a dozen years now, and along the way I’ve noticed a couple of things about editorial calendars. First, they are utterly critical for any content marketing program to be successful.… Read More

Advertise here via BSA Have you ever read a story you wrote and feel like it’s missing something? It’s probably got something to do with that age-old writing advice: “Show, don’t tell.” But why does “telling” fall flat? The part… Read More

Orange Prize for Fiction co-founder Kate Mosse revealed today that the mobile phone company Orange will end its sponsorship of the U.K. literary award that bears its name. The Prize for Fiction carries a £30,000 award, and winners receive a… Read More

Perhaps you’ve heard that there’s a brand-new, never-before-attempted survey coming out later this week on self-publishing and self-publishers. Real data from real authors is something we’ve been lacking in the indie publishing field. We try to get insight from comments… Read More

"Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself."… Read More

The WordPress Meetup Group in Portland, Oregon, has invited me to tonight’s meetup at the US Bancorps Building in downtown PDX to talk about the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users, and how to contribute. I’ll show them… Read More

Last weekend at the Pasadena LitFest, BookBaby president Brian Felsen had the opportunity to interview Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander (picked for Oprah’s Book Club) and Paint It Black. They discussed, in part, her famous 10 Writing Tips article… Read More

Today we get the first clip from Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film The Master, which will be released on October 12th. The film, written by Anderson, stars Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.… Read More

Should there be a ratings system for young adult books? Brigham Young University professor Sarah Coyne studied the 40 YA books that topped the New York Times bestseller list in the summer of 2008, identifying 1,500 “profane words” in the… Read More

After pulling its new eBook titles from libraries back in 2010, the Hachette Book Group is testing a pilot program to offer new eBooks in libraries this spring. Hachette currently offers backlist eBook titles for check out in libraries, but… Read More

Here are some literary events to jump-start your week. To get your event posted on our calendar, visit our Facebook Your Literary Event page. Please announce your event one week prior to its date. Author Alix Kates Shulman will appear at… Read More

CampusExplorer.com a website dedicated to college planning and connecting alumni has launched a new Facebook app called Connections. AppNewser has more: “The app gives students a map of where their Facebook friends are in college or went to college. The… Read More

By Ashleigh Lambert Herta Müller’s latest novel is called The Hunger Angel, but for 17-year-old Leo Auberg, it isn’t only hunger that takes on human form. As Leo shivers and starves in a Soviet work camp, he perceives all kinds of… Read More

Odyl, a New York-based company that works with publishers to create Facebook campaigns for books, has built a new social discovery tool for books called Riffle. Riffle, which is currently in beta, lets readers share and discover books with friends.… Read More

Over the past year, there’s been a self-publishing experiment taking place in the Calgary branch of the Romance Writers of America. (CARWA, members of which are known under the apt moniker “Carwackians.”) I’ve been an interested observer. Now that the… Read More

The digital publishing start-up The Atavist has landed a $1.5 million investment from a prominent slate of Silicon Valley investors. According to The New York Times, the digital publisher will soon release a free version of its publishing app: “people… Read More